“Corey & Corey” – The Movie, Part 15

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This limo footage was shot around 8 or 9 A.M. I ended up drinking an entire bottle of champagne in 30 minutes. So, most of this acting was done completely sloshed. Spitting the cigar in Ken’s face was another “real moment.”

Ken mistakenly says “GED” instead of “GRE.” This seemed funny, as the character wouldn’t know the difference.

Very faintly you can hear me mutter “Julie Lombardie, first finger bang.” This is in poor taste. Ken and I were remembering the popular girls from our high school. For Julie’s honor, I must admit to the illegitimacy of this claim. Julie now hand crafts jewelry. Buy a ring from her: www.julielombardi.com. I hear that makes for better fingerbangs.

“Corey & Corey” – The Movie, Part 14

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The party scene was originally scripted to go towards the front of the movie. In this original version, the party was just a gathering of friends we were crashing to hype our show. It would demonstrate the way people tend to brag and name-drop at parties. It was how we intended to introduce Nick, the second intern. None of it worked. Moving the party to the end as a “celebratory” event made so much more sense. The scene was about 20 minutes long originally.

One bit of the scene left on the floor was a favorite of Ken’s and mine. As mentioned, Nick was intended here as a caterer that Ken would wrangle and smooth-talk into his “Little Dreams” office scheme. Matt was to have contraband hors d’oeuvres, a plate of ‘Li’l Smokies.’ Nick, the proud and controlling caterer, was to confront Matt and seize the contraband sausages. Then we would see Matt and a group of party-goers eating Li’l Smokies in the bathroom. Nick knocks on the bathroom door. Matt flushes the smokies down the toilet and sprays air freshener. This would be set to “Smokin’ In The Boys Room.”

The cake bit is another instance of reality film-making. I had commissioned The Cake Girls to create a giant tv-shaped cake with “Corey & Corey” on the screen. They did just that. A co-worker of mine told a Cake Girl that Ken and I were going to stiff her on the payment. Which was silly, as we had already cut a check. Anyway, the Cake Girl cried and threw out the cake. There was some confusion at to how long the cake could last in a fridge. Originally, we were told “two weeks.” Then it rotted in three days. Ken and Betsy (who made the tie-apron) whipped up the cake seen in the film. It’s a lot funnier.

Recipe for the tv cake:
1 cake
2 peanut butter cups (for knobs)
2 pixie sticks (for antennae)
decorate with frosting and perhaps an image of Alf

The poem I read is the theme song from “Perfect Strangers.” Ken and I poured over two discs of television themes before coming across this gem. It’s a great example of a song with a catchy tune and, oddly, completely unmemorable lyrics. When read in prose form it just doesn’t register. Unlike, say, “Silver Spoons” or “Charles In Charge.”

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All Legoing was done by Ken and I. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would put Ken’s Lego skills at about 8.5. He built the Feldman house, the Delorean, and the windmill. The three best props in the movie. I built Corey Feldman in Lego and an ashtray.

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“Corey & Corey” – The Movie, Part 8

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The Biz-B-Q concept comes from Episode 1 of the tv show scripts. Haim, who’s hanging out watching tv in the electronics department of a Sears, sees an informercial for bongo-excersize device pitched by Corey Hart. Haim, who loathes Corey Hart, prods Feldman into developing an infomercial invention of their own. They invent a treadmill for babies, an Indiana Jones-themed head massager called “The Temples of Soothe,” a backhair-to-scalp hair transplant system called the “Taffy Toupee”, and the Biz-B-Q. The Biz-B-Q seemed like the easiest to build. And the funniest. It’s simply a Coleman grill from Target with an electronic paper shredder attached.

The “mesquite ink” concept is my favorite ad-lib of the movie.

Our friend Betsy and I both made tie-aprons. I unstiched a normal necktie and spread it out into an apron. Betsy made her’s from scratch. Her tie-apron won. It’s basically just a giant necktie with two tassles hanging from the widest parts to cinch around the back. There was a pocket-protector with miniature grill tools too, but that is hard to make out in the film.

“Corey & Corey” – The Movie, Part 7

Matt Yates, who plays the bald intern, now lives near a beach in Hawaii. His day revolves around going to a beach bar and reading the paper. He was the biggest surprise in making this movie, as he was so naturally suited to acting and dry humor. The line at the end of this clip: “So there’s no intercom? You’re just yelling?” To which Matt responds, “No, there is,” has to be my favorite little piece of humor in the movie. I tip my cap to Matt for that ad-lib. Most of this movie was ad-libbed. About one frame after we cut the shot goes to hell, as I buckle over with laughter and drop the camera.

Poor Nick had to wedge himself behind those post office boxes. There was about 2 feet of space back there, and it was dusty and filled with cobwebs. For his efforts we cut about 87% of his work out of the movie.

As most viewers can not tell, Matt and Nick are cleaning out erasers in that long night shot. They’re doing it in front of a church which sat across from our “Little Dreams” office.

“Corey & Corey” – The Movie, Part 6

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Chicagoans will recognize this intersect as the heart of Wicker Park. The street interviews were conducted with complete strangers. The first person we stopped on the street was the girl who tells us her name is Feldman. We took that as good fortune. Then someone stole our tv show idea. So much for that karma.

The van scene was drawn up to help explain the plot of “L2D2″. The scene comes from the 3rd episode of the “C&C” tv show, and was to take place on the deck of Haim’s boat, which he has sitting on an empty dirt lot. I do think “License To Drive” was ripe for a sequel. Carol Kane (Haim’s mom in the movie) has twins at the end of the film. They would just be learning how to drive. Haim and Feldman would then fix up Grandpa’s smashed BMW with magic, turning it into a Delorean that travels through time. They would then go back into the first movie, ala “Back To The Future 2″. When coming up with Hollywood films you always think up the worst idea possible, and that’s usually the closest to the truth.

Haim and Feldman visual keys:
Haim – Hawaiian shirt and spiked hair.
Feldman – doo-rag and studded glove.

Paul F., who plays the guy who says “to go BACK IN TIME,” knows more about movies than any human on Earth. However, I believe I can stump him on Corey film trivia. Check out his blog here.